Kenyan Woman abandoned her babies to go drinking in Dubai

DUBAI // A woman abandoned her two illegitimate children and was found three days later drinking alcohol with a friend, a court heard yesterday.

Police tracked her down after one of her children, an 11-month-old boy, became seriously ill and required hospital treatment. She claimed she left the children only briefly so she could look for a job.

D K, 32, from Kenya, was charged at the Misdemeanours Court yesterday with endangering the lives of her children, sex outside of marriage and overstaying her visa.

Prosecutors said she came to the UAE on a visit visa in 2009 and started a relationship with a compatriot, C N.

She moved in with him in Deira, became pregnant and gave birth to a girl at a friend’s house. The baby suffered from tuberculosis, passed to her from the mother.

About a year later she became pregnant again and gave birth to a boy, who was also delivered at the friend’s house. Neither child was vaccinated.

The woman’s partner abandoned her and left the country. She took the children to the house of her friend, A K, where the children had been born, and left them in the care of her friend’s roommate on December 11 last year.